Sai Prasad Jayaraman

• Compensation & Benefits Strategy: Designed and implemented competitive compensation structures and benefits programs aligned with industry benchmarks, ensuring internal equity, and supporting scalability for a projected headcount increase from 1,000 to 2,500 employees over two years.
• Employee Relations & Business Partnering: Established robust employee relations frameworks and served as a strategic HR business partner to leadership, driving organizational alignment, resolving complex workforce issues, and fostering a culture of trust and collaboration.
• Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning: Led end-to-end recruitment strategies for diverse roles across PNCA and enabling functions, balancing aggressive hiring targets with attrition control measures to support rapid organizational growth.
• Performance Management & Development: Spearheaded performance management systems and leadership development programs, ensuring goal alignment, continuous feedback, and succession planning, to build future-ready leadership pipelines.
• Corporate Communication & Administration: Directed corporate communication initiatives and general administration functions, ensuring consistent messaging, compliance, and operational excellence across multiple locations to support a growing workforce.

• Helped growth-stage start-ups set up recruitment strategies, talent management, succession planning, and employee engagement frameworks as part of fractional CHRO services.
• Led strategic initiatives for Your Tribe Group, managing profit and loss (P&L), and driving revenue growth by 20%.
• Spearheaded expansion into new business lines, such as Recruitment Solutions, HR as a Service, and Corporate Gifting.
• Grew the business by 20% by introducing a subscription model for Recruitment As A Service & HR As A Service.
• Managed a team of 15 employees, scaling talent solutions by 30% in one year.

• Managed a team of six seasoned HRBPs and four HR operations specialists.
• Performance Management: Spearheaded comprehensive performance management frameworks, driving high-impact goal alignment, regular feedback cycles, and continuous improvement, resulting in a 21% increase in productivity across multiple teams.
• Talent Development: Designed and implemented talent development programs, nurturing high-potential employees, and fostering a culture of growth, which led to an increase in leadership pipeline readiness by 40% over three years.
• Compensation Benchmarking: Conducted rigorous compensation benchmarking analyses, aligning salary structures with industry standards to attract and retain top talent, while maintaining competitiveness and internal equity.
• Culture and Benefits Harmonization during Mergers: Led culture and benefits harmonization efforts during mergers, ensuring a seamless transition and alignment of policies across merged entities, which enhanced employee satisfaction and retention by 12%.
• Strategic Advisory to C-Suite: Provided strategic HR advisory to C-suite executives on organizational restructuring, leadership succession planning, and change management, enabling data-driven decisions that aligned with long-term business objectives.
• Global HR IT projects were delivered successfully within tight timelines: success factors for Workday, attendance tracking during COVID, and setting up Workday for talent management and development.

• Set up and built capacity and capability of the HRBP team from ground zero to support 2,500+ staff, pan India.
• Created structures to support the 6 CXOs and directly supported the CEO for critical projects while reporting to the CHRO.
• Headed the Organizational and Talent Development function, implementing succession planning, leadership development, and innovation lab practices.
• Crafted unique HR policies for a segmented focus for IT, Operations, Legal, Finance, and Shared Services organizations.
• Maintained positive relationships with clients, vendors, subcontractors, and other external partners.

• Regional Representation and People Charter: Successfully advocated for the voices of over 1,000 employees across South and West India, influencing the executive team to adopt an inclusive, regionally-sensitive people charter that aligned with the organization’s central objectives.
• Employee Engagement and Retention: Established a robust regional employee engagement framework, enhancing morale and reducing turnover through targeted wellness initiatives that addressed workplace stress, leading to a measurable increase in retention rates.
• Grievance Redressal System: Instituted an effective, accessible grievance redressal system, empowering employees to voice concerns confidently and contributing to a more transparent, supportive workplace culture.
• Compliance and Stakeholder Collaboration: Ensured comprehensive compliance across all sites by building strong relationships with local labor and law enforcement authorities, conducting regular audits, and staying ahead of regulatory changes.
• Talent Management and Development Programs: Developed a customized career progression framework with cross-skills training, and implemented a “Hire-Train-Deploy” model, specifically targeting high-turnover areas, which significantly improved workforce stability and adaptability.

Promotions :

Deputy Vice President, HR, June 2016 – April 2017.

Assistant Vice President, HR, August 2011 – May 2016.

• In charge of generalist HR activities for Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kerala or over 1500 employees

• HR Business Partner for captive businesses and HR Site lead for F&A, 3rd party practice

• Set up HR, Supply Chain and Finance Shared Services

• Managed employee onboarding and orientation processes for new hires.
• Facilitated training sessions on company policies and compliance regulations.
• Assisted in resolving employee inquiries and concerns effectively.
• Developed and maintained employee records in HR information systems.
• Partnered with senior HR team to communicate company standards and policies.
• Conducted background checks and orientation, coordinating new employee onboarding process.
• Prepared reports related to HR activities such as turnover rate analysis, absenteeism rate.
• Reviewed job descriptions, identified necessary changes and updated accordingly.